CALGARY, AB: Ontario Premier Doug Ford tops the Taxpayer Naughty List for gifting politicians massive pay raises, bringing back taxpayer-funded pensions for politicians and making Ontario’s political welfare permanent.

“Ford took a pay raise that would make even Ebenezer Scrooge blush: A $73,000 hike in one year,” said Franco Terrazzano, CTF Federal Director. “But Ford isn’t the only one with coal in his stocking.

“The Patron Saint of Children doesn’t like it when politicians saddle future generations with massive debt bills, so federal Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is on the Naughty List for borrowing tens of billions of dollars every year.

“The Canada Revenue Agency left Santa on hold for nearly an hour then gave Mr. Claus the wrong tax information, so those bureaucrats are on the Naughty List.”

Federal Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree made the Taxpayer Naughty List for targeting law-abiding Canadian firearms owners instead of going after illegal guns and criminals.

Quebec Premier François Legault is on the Naughty List for being the only premier to keep charging a consumer carbon tax.

But it wasn’t all bad this year because lots of folks made the Taxpayer Nice List.

Indigenous activist Hans McCarthy made the Taxpayer Nice List for winning a landmark court case to improve transparency for First Nations’ band members. And Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston also made the Nice List for cutting income taxes, sales taxes and small business taxes.

“The Parliamentary Budget Officer topped the Nice List for giving taxpayers the gift of government transparency and calling Krampus on Ottawa’s creative budget accounting,” Terrazzano said. “Alberta Premier Danielle Smith made Santa’s good books for saving taxpayers a ton of cookie dough during the teachers’ strike and getting kids back to school.”

You can read the entire 2025 Taxpayer Naughty and Nice List here.

Taxpayer Naughty List:

• Ontario Premier Doug Ford
• Federal Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne
• The Canada Revenue Agency
• British Columbia Finance Minister Brenda Bailey
• Quebec Premier François Legault
• Federal Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree

Taxpayer Nice List:

• Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques
• Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe
• Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston
• Cape Breton gun owners
• Indigenous activist Hans McCarthy
• Alberta Premier Danielle Smith